Intellectualising

Intellectualising - (1910)

Many, Many Things

We Intellectualise many things! Nearly every activity that we are involved in, we end up intellectualising. We intellectualise people, events, relationships, many human activities and nearly everything that we come across.

Disadvantages

This has its certain disadvantages.

Intellectualising things limits us, especially the results of the intellectualising is about seeing the thing, person, activity, event in a negative light.

This intellectualising leads to the creation of concepts, expectations, reasoning, protests, fantasy, thinking, dreaming, and arguments to name only a few things.

How to Not!

To see something with our consciousness, or in a state of alert novelty as Master Samael says is the way to stop it.

If we are alert we can stop it, and just look upon the person, the thing, the event, the activity with a quiet mind, and then our essence will be looking at it and comprehending rather than intellectualising.

Pay some attention to this and when you stop intellectualising things you will notice a difference which is very pleasant.

Enjoyment

We should enjoy things freely, that is free from our concepts, intellectualising and the results of intellectualising. When we have intellectualised something we end up trying to enjoy things through our intellectualising and this is sometimes not possible or difficult to do, and if we do end up enjoying something this way it is difficult to repeat and because of that we end up continually disappointed. This is because we are abstracted somewhat from reality. We should be close to reality, accept the reality and love or at least come to learn how to enjoy reality and not our intellectualising of things.

End (1910).

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